内容简介
This Norton Critical Edition again features the 1900 Doubleday, Page text of the novel. The text is fully annotated to reveal the author's use of actual persons and places in both Chicago and New York. The novel is preceded by "A Note on the ext," which discusses the relationship between this edition's text and that of the Pennsylvania Edition ( 1981 ), and by the "Textual Appendix," which provides a generous sampling of the cuts Dreiser and his friend Arthur Henry made in the type* version of Sister Carrie.
"Backgrounds and Sources" reprints, as in the last edition, gener-ous excerpts from Dreiser's autobiographies and elsewhere that per sonally link the author to his novel. A docmnentary account, drawn largely from Dreiser's correspondence with Frank Norris, Arthur Henry, Walter H. Page, and E. N. Doubleday, discusses the leg-endary supposed "suppression" of Sister Carrie by its first publisher.
"Criticism" includes thirteen essays that principally seek to iden-tify Dreiser's distinctive literary naturalism, the novel's relationship to American culture, Dreiser's narrative technique, the role of women in Sister Carrie, and the novel's gender and class issues.
"Backgrounds and Sources" reprints, as in the last edition, gener-ous excerpts from Dreiser's autobiographies and elsewhere that per sonally link the author to his novel. A docmnentary account, drawn largely from Dreiser's correspondence with Frank Norris, Arthur Henry, Walter H. Page, and E. N. Doubleday, discusses the leg-endary supposed "suppression" of Sister Carrie by its first publisher.
"Criticism" includes thirteen essays that principally seek to iden-tify Dreiser's distinctive literary naturalism, the novel's relationship to American culture, Dreiser's narrative technique, the role of women in Sister Carrie, and the novel's gender and class issues.